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ArticleAsian journal of neurosurgery

Expandable Titanium Cages in the Emergent Treatment of Severe Spinal Deformity Secondary to Osteomyelitis: A Series of Three Complex Cases.

Ryan Screven, Mohammad Hassan A Noureldine, Paul R Krafft, Puya Alikhani

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Article in Asian journal of neurosurgery. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ryan ScrevenDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tampa General Hospital, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, USA.
Mohammad Hassan A NoureldineDepartment of Neurosurgery, Institute for Brain Protection Sciences, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA.
Paul R KrafftDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tampa General Hospital, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, USA.
Puya AlikhaniDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tampa General Hospital, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, USA.
University of South Florida · USJohns Hopkins All Children's Hospital · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The literature lacks robust evidence on the benefits versus risks of instrumenting and fusing the spinal column in the setting of active osteomyelitis. We report three patients with vertebral osteomyelitis and subsequent severe and complex kyphotic deformities. Patients 1 and 2 had previous instrumentation that required revision because of hardware failure in the thoracic and thoracolumbar regions, respectively. Patient 3 developed a severe cervical kyphotic deformity at 2 months after being diagnosed and treated with antibiotics for osteomyelitis, necessitating emergent instrumentation and fusion. All the three patients are doing very well so far. Spinal instrumentation and fusion for correction of kyphotic deformity is sometimes necessary in the context of active osteomyelitis and should be done emergently and without hesitation when spinal cord injury from spinal instability is of concern.

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Deformityexpandable cagefusionkyphosisosteomyelitis

Identifiers

PMID32656140
PMCPMC7335120
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